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it is not quite the same in washington. [laughter] >> that is probably one of the biggest adjustments. i knew that, but i really didn't understand it. you know, the real challenges that we have are that we have this large organization that has to do with some very significant change. it is kind of some of the same things in afghanistan and iraq. it is about a vision of change in how you implement change. three or four times in iraq we had to implement a change. signing a security agreement, going into stability operations. going through that same kind of change now. it is about having the right vision and how you implement change using her leadership and communicating the change you want to make. to me, that is critical as we go forward. so we have spent a lot of time on internally making sure that we make sure we know where we want to go. it has not been difficult, but just something that we have to take on it and we will continue to take on as we move forward. it is because of downsizing, it is because of the changes. the
it is not quite the same in washington. [laughter] >> that is probably one of the biggest adjustments. i knew that, but i really didn't understand it. you know, the real challenges that we have are that we have this large organization that has to do with some very significant change. it is kind of some of the same things in afghanistan and iraq. it is about a vision of change in how you implement change. three or four times in iraq we had to implement a change. signing a security...
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-asia relations, november 1, 2012, washington, d.c. so thank you. i'm told by my notes here there's a photo op. is there a photo person here? a photographer? did you, did you want to do a photo op? you've got to go, sorry. we're so efficient. >> i was leaning over to -- [laughter] >> we're going to put that on the website, kurt. well, this is an excellent discussion but i hope you all enjoyed it. we at georgetown are really honored to have hosted this event, along with our friends from the korean institute. thank you to our guests, and to all of our attendees for being here. now, that concludes this event, and we wish you a good evening. [applause] >> [inaudible conversations] why would be assassin john wilkes booth want to assassinate him stick some scholars think that booth realized that an event of the death of both the president and the vice president, secretary of state was tasked with organizing an election. i don't think so. booth wasn't alone. he was an actor. and a shakespearean actor who knew the play caesars backward and forward. and he v
-asia relations, november 1, 2012, washington, d.c. so thank you. i'm told by my notes here there's a photo op. is there a photo person here? a photographer? did you, did you want to do a photo op? you've got to go, sorry. we're so efficient. >> i was leaning over to -- [laughter] >> we're going to put that on the website, kurt. well, this is an excellent discussion but i hope you all enjoyed it. we at georgetown are really honored to have hosted this event, along with our friends...
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asked how was he found awake to brush this aside much the way george washington brushed aside his own complaint of subordinates in the revolution only key moments he put his foot down and essentially told the brakes to stuff it. that didn't stop from becoming a thorn in the sight of all american commanders in europe for the duration of the war. but ike, omar bradley, george patton on managed workarounds to minimize the negative in fact of the war effort. so when the war in, we are expected to supply wealth and prosperity to all be due to the best of our ability and yet this brings with it this irony that by supplying wells and protection, you are eroding the very disciplines necessary to maintain and perpetuate prosperity for yourself and prosperity and freedom for others. therapeutic challenge of the next 75 years in the topic of volume two. how to provide a canopy of liberty and perpetuate american exceptionalism while allowing just enough of the rain of difficulty and disappointment to remind american and the world that the era in which we have all been blessed with no golden accid
asked how was he found awake to brush this aside much the way george washington brushed aside his own complaint of subordinates in the revolution only key moments he put his foot down and essentially told the brakes to stuff it. that didn't stop from becoming a thorn in the sight of all american commanders in europe for the duration of the war. but ike, omar bradley, george patton on managed workarounds to minimize the negative in fact of the war effort. so when the war in, we are expected to...
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yes, go ahead. >> jack, washington. i just want to pick -- >> brevity will get gold stars. >> sorry? >> brevity gets gold stars. >> china's oil economy is half imported order from the middle east and north africa, evacuated 30,000 chinese from libya in that period of time of unrest. the question i raise is the need for china to stabilize sources of oil and energy reserves from that part of the world to lead to the same kind of ambition to sustain that with a geopolitical force in the form of a blue water navy as we have over the last 60-70 years. does that lead to the conflict we're talking about here? >> yes, sir? >> bill gram, canada. maybe a quick comment on the resource issue. i take issue with whether or not it's better to know what's there or not there. canada and the united states have an interesting discussion about the border between alaska and northern canada -- >> ambiguity. >> better off when it was terrorists knowing us, and not when you knew how many barrel of oil contributed to each nation's economy. that
yes, go ahead. >> jack, washington. i just want to pick -- >> brevity will get gold stars. >> sorry? >> brevity gets gold stars. >> china's oil economy is half imported order from the middle east and north africa, evacuated 30,000 chinese from libya in that period of time of unrest. the question i raise is the need for china to stabilize sources of oil and energy reserves from that part of the world to lead to the same kind of ambition to sustain that with a...
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washington became president.?? it has the major features and a? major mission features of the? centralized intelligence.???? the os us was very unique because it? was the first?? national intelligence service responsible to one command, and that is the president's. before that, before the zero ss was created, they had always been departmentalized. highly technical. you have the u.s. army, u.s. navy, the state department, the fbi, treasury, commerce. every major agency of the u.s. government had its own intelligence service of the specialized nature. so it was created to nationalize or centralized that intelligence existence, which is something that the model after the british . which is also very controversial nature because people always blame to pro-british. so it was a very interesting experience because of world war ii, the prime opportunity for the proponent of a centralized intelligence to prove its worth. and that is why the experience? was fascinating, and generally a lot of arguments for the eventual purpose of providing legal justification of its??? worth.?
washington became president.?? it has the major features and a? major mission features of the? centralized intelligence.???? the os us was very unique because it? was the first?? national intelligence service responsible to one command, and that is the president's. before that, before the zero ss was created, they had always been departmentalized. highly technical. you have the u.s. army, u.s. navy, the state department, the fbi, treasury, commerce. every major agency of the u.s....
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i couldn't help but read that above the article in the washington post, he didn't get the job for secretary of state and somebody is trying to throw some sort of bob. people like john kerry are completely incapable of helping the pentagon deal with this problem, even that problem. led of the on the problem that is going to occur. the other candidates for leadership of the pentagon to be it through this era, a very smart -- no background in any of these issues. the other candidates is ashton carter. he is perceived as a good manager. if you look at his job on the f 35 i simply cannot agree. he is not picking on the fundamental efforts of problem represents. he let it float to the future and it is going to face a phase in this, even in the sequestered scenario, it will do nothing but increase the cost on airplane which is a disappointment in terms of performance and that is a result of his management. i don't see him as a competent candidate to lead the pentagon through this future, thank you very much. >> thank you, winslow wheeler. our final speakerheather hurl r hurlbert is, prolific autho
i couldn't help but read that above the article in the washington post, he didn't get the job for secretary of state and somebody is trying to throw some sort of bob. people like john kerry are completely incapable of helping the pentagon deal with this problem, even that problem. led of the on the problem that is going to occur. the other candidates for leadership of the pentagon to be it through this era, a very smart -- no background in any of these issues. the other candidates is ashton...
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"washington journal" at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> you're watching c-span2 weekdays featuring live coverage of u.s. senate. on weeknights, watch key public policy events and every weekend, the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and and get our schedules at her website, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> next, a discussion on gender issues. columbia professor patricia williams was joined by darlene never and salon.com rebecca traister. they talked about reproductive rights and pay equity. this is two hours and 10 minutes. [applause] >> we are very, very formalizes institute. [laughter] okay, i'm getting the sign. i am delighted to welcome you to the state of the union, gender, sexuality, and the 2012 election. this event is one of our events this year celebrating the 20th anniversary of the institute and we are delighted that you can all come out and that we can have our distinguished panel of guests. alondra nelson will introduce everyone and give
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. >> the story was we were there, that was the second in twenty after the one in washington, the height of the crisis in november. prime minister gordon brown had the next one in april in london and that was around the time of my birthday. won the conference was done and we said let's go for a walk and would you like to see where abby road is, sure, let's see. so we went out and did this picture and the wife said we should go not on the door -- i don't think you can do that. she said i think they're expecting you. we have arranged for that. that is what i did. we knock on the door and went in and they gave us a great for including studio 2 where the beatles recorded all of their stuff and they brought out -- i'm a piano player, they brought out pianos and keyboards that the beatles actually composed or performed. so i fooled around on that. my disappointment was when i left, they prevented me with the cd that had been recording what i was doing and if i had known that i would have tried to play something and do it well but i was fooling around. >> a parting gift for all of you on the wa
. >> the story was we were there, that was the second in twenty after the one in washington, the height of the crisis in november. prime minister gordon brown had the next one in april in london and that was around the time of my birthday. won the conference was done and we said let's go for a walk and would you like to see where abby road is, sure, let's see. so we went out and did this picture and the wife said we should go not on the door -- i don't think you can do that. she said i...
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a three-way relationship on beijing, washington and taipei is positive and quiet, as quiet as it's been over two decades. since that's the only issue on which there is any realistic prospect of armed conflict, and that is small thing. fifth, territorial disputes in the south china sea and east china sea are in my view the most troubling development. chinese confrontation with u.s. treaty allies, principally with japan create serious tensions and introduce unpredictability in the u.s.-china chip as well as offering an image of china's rise is unsettling to countries well beyond concerned rivals. finally, military deployments on both sides. i won't discuss those because i believe jonathan, jonathan pollack will do so in depth in his presentation. what do we expect them president obama's second term and she champagnes first. the main variable and the relationship is china. president obama has had for years to formulate and put in place an approach towards china. in broad terms it is consistent with that of his predecessor since president nixon. its main features are welcoming attitude towa
a three-way relationship on beijing, washington and taipei is positive and quiet, as quiet as it's been over two decades. since that's the only issue on which there is any realistic prospect of armed conflict, and that is small thing. fifth, territorial disputes in the south china sea and east china sea are in my view the most troubling development. chinese confrontation with u.s. treaty allies, principally with japan create serious tensions and introduce unpredictability in the u.s.-china chip...
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that's also the washington term. what it means of the senate bill to a committee and you have a hearing. you have oversight hearings and the mark of the bill and you have an amendment and tivo. you go to the house and senate. you go to the conference and the senate bill to the president that needs to be signed. they don't do that anymore. even the transportation bill, which they did finally get done this year, it went through a procedure because the house never passed the bill. but they round out getting a transportation bill. it's a combination of things. modern technology and frankly it is a 24/7 news meeting. you stick your foot in your mouth now, you have a real problem. it is the fact that the members leave their families back home. you can't be a good legislator who copies a week. you have to work at it. so the combination of those things that contributed to the partisanship and the gridlock that we have now, but the answer is humble. it is called leadership. men and women of goodwill, republicans and democrats
that's also the washington term. what it means of the senate bill to a committee and you have a hearing. you have oversight hearings and the mark of the bill and you have an amendment and tivo. you go to the house and senate. you go to the conference and the senate bill to the president that needs to be signed. they don't do that anymore. even the transportation bill, which they did finally get done this year, it went through a procedure because the house never passed the bill. but they round...
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he's been a guest here on "washington journal." thank you, mr. prible. >> guest: thank you. >> just a few minutes ago, i called vice president bush to congratulate him on his back jury. -- of the durie. i know i speak for all of you in the american people when i say you will be our president and work with him. this nation faces major challenges ahead and we must work together. >> i just received a telephone call from governor dukakis. [cheers and applause] and i want you to know, he was most gracious. his call was personal, genuinely friendly and it is in the great tradition of american politics. >> next, fema administrator craig fugate and red cross advisory charley shimanski give an update on hurricane cindy response efforts. they discussed the need for food and shelter assistance and blood donations. after the conference >> caller: attracted to members of congress about how their home districts fared in the storm. >> good morning, everybody. although wide operations search and rescue is a much the first task on the we are very much in response
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they've given a million five in scholarships to washington d.c. public school graduates over the last 20 years or so. we braced endowment of more than $2 million. my experiences on the board and also at the church mason university for a teach both graduate and undergraduate students and public policy have led me to a number of conclusions that run counter to what our traditional view of the american dream is all about. for as long as we can sort of remote or, a college education has been the ticket to a more comfortable life and while that reality still exists, it is competing with some alternatives that i think will hamper not just urban america, but america generally. by that i mean the cost of the ticket to get in and complete college represents a barrier that i believe will ultimately injure our economy. not only that but the rapid change of technological evolution is bringing about has created a spatial mismatch between the kind of jobs that are going to be available going forward and the kinds of people able to take those jobs. the problem i
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meanwhile washington has been moving to bolster alicenses with japan, south korea and australia. what's the region's view of beijing and how is washington's renewed focus on asia being received? here with answers is our very own man in asia wendell minnick in town for his annual visit to washington from taipei. welcome wendell. >> thank you. >> so how is china and specifically its military modernization viewed in the region including china's fielding of a new aircraft carrier? >> well, each country has a different perspective oncoming's military modernization. the philippine is the most concerned about it obviously. they have a very weak navy. both of them have claims to the south china sea and these disputes are flaring up of course. china's military modernization efforts include an aircraft carrier and they appear to be building more as we speak. so they're laying claim to south china sea and other parts of the east china sea as well. primarily for oil and fishing rights. china's a growing population, it's a hungry nation, they're flush with cash. and they spend it on big ships
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not just congressman, not just the lobbyists in washington, d.c. this is not obamacare and then surprise to the american people. if you do those two things you will not get a bad bill. rather than try and negotiate with ourselves, which he calls doing, meaning to, but he's not negotiate with anybody when is having that conversation. let's actually have it transparency and the recent this is particularly fun is obama in 2008 promised he would to obamacare and other pigtails in front of c-span, didn't but he said he would. and they all promise, nancy pelosi, boehner and the president a bill so the online for an agreeable time. needs to be seven days. >> we are on c-span. we are on c-span, online, and i want to be clear about this. so you are not against new revenue? >> i am certainly for new revenue for economic growth. is to give you two numbers to set the stage -- >> but -- >> this is important but if we go at 4% instead of 2% for a decade. if we were at reagan percentages rather than french or obama percentages, 4% rather than 2% for one decade, t
not just congressman, not just the lobbyists in washington, d.c. this is not obamacare and then surprise to the american people. if you do those two things you will not get a bad bill. rather than try and negotiate with ourselves, which he calls doing, meaning to, but he's not negotiate with anybody when is having that conversation. let's actually have it transparency and the recent this is particularly fun is obama in 2008 promised he would to obamacare and other pigtails in front of c-span,...
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he's known throughout washington is seeking policy intellectual with an ability to synthesize complex issues with unparalleled efficiency. desert on issues ranging from some solid research to jewish voting patterns in presidential elections to human rights in north korea in such publications as "the new york times," "wall street journal" and "washington post." for purposes today, should be noted jay served as special envoy for human rights under president george w. bush and in that position, she was known for his forthright criticism that simply the north korean tyranny, but also china and occasionally in south korea for failing to do more to assist north korean refugees and their fight to freedom. she did not spare criticism either of the folks at foggy bottom. he was on him for criticizing state department policies that seem more concerned about preserving the six party talks on north korea's nuclear program and step in the nuclear program itself for promoting human rights in the country. without any further ado ladies and gentlemen can get a warm hudson institute welcome to jay lef
he's known throughout washington is seeking policy intellectual with an ability to synthesize complex issues with unparalleled efficiency. desert on issues ranging from some solid research to jewish voting patterns in presidential elections to human rights in north korea in such publications as "the new york times," "wall street journal" and "washington post." for purposes today, should be noted jay served as special envoy for human rights under president george w....
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washington redskins, someone i interviewed for an outside lines peace of mind. before kurt warner were stepping toward saying i'm not going let my kid football. eddie was one of the voices that got the conversation started back then. eddie, why adopt you tell us about your perspective an the decision you made with your son. >> tom, thanks. congratulations to the board. thank you for your great work, scott, u.s.a. football. i played the game 27 of years of my life has been devoted to the game. eight years professionally. there's consequences to the game. it comes along with it. at the end of the day, you know, working as a commission of sports league, being involved with two -- actually three full-contact leagues in virginia, the thing i have seen since i have been retired and i've been training. i'm on a training facility that works with young athletes from ages to six to pro. the issue is education, and the reality between the education and the reality is this. is that the coaches, the that coach the game, whether it's flag or tackle, for whatever reason, don't
washington redskins, someone i interviewed for an outside lines peace of mind. before kurt warner were stepping toward saying i'm not going let my kid football. eddie was one of the voices that got the conversation started back then. eddie, why adopt you tell us about your perspective an the decision you made with your son. >> tom, thanks. congratulations to the board. thank you for your great work, scott, u.s.a. football. i played the game 27 of years of my life has been devoted to the...
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we are always enormously honored to have the washington vessel here. we coordinated counterterrorism efforts around the world. you can even more public this past year with a well-received book on the art of intelligence. behind those emerging from the world of shadows was a driving desire and ambition to educate american policymakers and especially the american public about the needs and uses of intelligence in our hyper connected world of asymmetrical threats. before that, he created his signal legend in afghanistan where he took roughly 110 cia officers and 400 plus special operations forces to overthrow the taliban and so for two years we have developed networks and building trusted allies would allies. we had a two-year hard work building this network and building this alliance. when 9/11 happened, we knew who we could depend upon who we could go to. it wasn't only collecting intelligence against al qaeda and the enemy, but other allies and mapping human terrain. along that path, there had been the hunt for osama bin laden and the first idea for dr
we are always enormously honored to have the washington vessel here. we coordinated counterterrorism efforts around the world. you can even more public this past year with a well-received book on the art of intelligence. behind those emerging from the world of shadows was a driving desire and ambition to educate american policymakers and especially the american public about the needs and uses of intelligence in our hyper connected world of asymmetrical threats. before that, he created his...
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"washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7 a.m. eastern. >> you are watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs, weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. on weeknights, watch key public policy this. and every weekend, the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our website, and you can join in on the conversation on social media sites. >> tuesday, "the wall street journal"'s ceo council held its and a meeting in washington, d.c. next, former spanish by minister jose maria aznar gives his assessment of the european debt crisis and future of the european union. this is 30 minutes. >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] locked into this cycle of austerity and contraction. can you give us a sense, you were prime minister of spain for eight years before this crisis broke, can you give us a sense here of what, about serious europeans are and what needs to be done right now to come out of this tailspin the european economy seems to be in? >> fir
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[laughter] it's kind of like washington on the eve of the election. what is newest is the social media side of it. that's brand new. and that, it's a little hard to know what to make of it, but the leadership certainly is very sensitive to the fact that social media is out there dogging their heels all the time and with more than a little sarcasm and humor as they do it. so there's an issue of, i think, some element of face and stature that gets caught up in this. but the, you know, china is full of strategic leaks in the lead-up to a leadership change. and my experience over a number of years now has been never believe any of 'em, because they are strategic leaks by insiders and even iley-placed people -- highly-placed people but in the second echelon don't really know what is going on in the core negotiations that are taking place internally. >> 30 seconds, can i respond? >> 30 seconds. >> 30 seconds. besides the social media, i think another factor is that the list was leaked about two or three weeks before the party congress. it's 95% correct. and
[laughter] it's kind of like washington on the eve of the election. what is newest is the social media side of it. that's brand new. and that, it's a little hard to know what to make of it, but the leadership certainly is very sensitive to the fact that social media is out there dogging their heels all the time and with more than a little sarcasm and humor as they do it. so there's an issue of, i think, some element of face and stature that gets caught up in this. but the, you know, china is...
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canada's prime minister says he thinks reasonable people in washington will find solutions to the so-called fiscal clip. prime minister steven "harper's" comments came in in the form of business leaders and candidates. [applause] much [speaking in native tongue]us. >> thank you very much. it's an honor to have you again. us me explain for all of here how this is going to work. we have been here since 10:00 this morning have had a packed . this might be the highlight. here is what we will do -- i have a few questions i would like to ask the prime minister. we appreciate you doing this format. i think this is more fun. >> i appreciate you having us here. >> i will ask a few questions. if you have questions, when we get to that point, i will acknowledge you. i will ask you to identify yourself. put your question in the form of the question. ask something that he has already answered. you need no introduction. the contact is that prime minister harper has governed during a point in history that was challenging. it has been challenging economically, from a security point of view that is happenin
canada's prime minister says he thinks reasonable people in washington will find solutions to the so-called fiscal clip. prime minister steven "harper's" comments came in in the form of business leaders and candidates. [applause] much [speaking in native tongue]us. >> thank you very much. it's an honor to have you again. us me explain for all of here how this is going to work. we have been here since 10:00 this morning have had a packed . this might be the highlight. here is...
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at the time being still washington is putting a lot of. efforts to is making a lot of efforts also to reassure china it is not trying to derail its growth but to some degree control it to make it manageable cater a tiny bit and then i know you can answer about that i'd like to take issue with go ahead brian gray we're going to thirty seconds before going to be go ahead. well i think we just have to yes the united states is reassuring china but if there is a domestic opposition in china similar to what happened in iran in two thousand and nine or what happened in syria or what happened in china in one nine hundred eighty nine with tiananmen you'll see it the whole western media and the u.s. government turned suddenly sharply to support that opposition against the chinese communist party that's an underlying part of the politics and i think the chinese government knows that ok brian let me jump in gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after about sharp to continue our discussion on china stay with our. anything. you want to. use t
at the time being still washington is putting a lot of. efforts to is making a lot of efforts also to reassure china it is not trying to derail its growth but to some degree control it to make it manageable cater a tiny bit and then i know you can answer about that i'd like to take issue with go ahead brian gray we're going to thirty seconds before going to be go ahead. well i think we just have to yes the united states is reassuring china but if there is a domestic opposition in china similar...
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. >> families list within washington politics, it is an incredibly powerful force. at some point they were the largest organization. i don't know if that's still true, in the day of the super pacs, they are not the largest anybody. so emily's list is an organization that supports democratic pro-choice women for all kinds of offices around the country. they are very powerful and have been working really hard for a long time to get more women effect did. other celebration about the creator of the woman, sometimes you want to say this is terrific progress in other times you say wow, 20%. but it's very, very work getting women elected. so i cited emily's list because they're the biggest. but there's grass-roots organizations, places like the white house project to go around trading at women, which is one of the biggest problems in terms of electing women. you know, organizations like sam bennett wins that campaign for him. all kinds of organizations support getting women into politics. >> and the same thing is true for. we have the victory fun working for a long time. o
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nobody in washington has faced. how do we work with, with an islamic of iran or even in egypt, for that matter, acting to promote its interest as it sees them, as an independent country, not as many in washington were she to be. thank you are a much ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> thank you, hillary. our next speaker is dr. trita parsi who is the founder and president of the national irani in american council and that is a vocal proponent of dialogue and engagement between the u.s. and iran. in dr. parsi is the author of an award-winning book called the secret dealings of iran israel and the united states, published in 2007 and has a new book this year called the single rule of obama's diplomacy with iran, both from yale university press. i should say that all these panelists are also quoted in the major media frequently, so that's another thing. i don't mention each one at the time, but all of them. >> thank you so much. it's a great pleasure being here. i think it's going to be quite an interesting q&a followi
nobody in washington has faced. how do we work with, with an islamic of iran or even in egypt, for that matter, acting to promote its interest as it sees them, as an independent country, not as many in washington were she to be. thank you are a much ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> thank you, hillary. our next speaker is dr. trita parsi who is the founder and president of the national irani in american council and that is a vocal proponent of dialogue and engagement between the u.s....
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princeton university professor aaron friedberg spoke to nhk in washington. friedberg is romney's adviser on asia-pacific policies. friedburg said the obama administration has been weak on the issue between japan and china over the senkaku islands. he also referred to the japan-u.s. security treaty. >> the best way of maintaining stability and deterring progression on the part of china is to make absolutely clear the american intention to uphold its treaty commitments. >> friedberg said the u.s. needs to do more to send its signal to the chinese. the advisor also said the obama administration does not pay sufficient attention to its allies. he said romney wants to work to strengthen ties with japan. >> i think he sees japan as america's crucial ally in asia and a central point of our web of relationships with countries in east asia. >> friedberg said the two countries need to cooperate more closely to respond to china's military buildup. >>> the asem meets in laos. the two-day meeting attended by the leaders of 49 countries. the discussions will focus on incl
princeton university professor aaron friedberg spoke to nhk in washington. friedberg is romney's adviser on asia-pacific policies. friedburg said the obama administration has been weak on the issue between japan and china over the senkaku islands. he also referred to the japan-u.s. security treaty. >> the best way of maintaining stability and deterring progression on the part of china is to make absolutely clear the american intention to uphold its treaty commitments. >> friedberg...
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two years in the conversations bill would come out of the government to bring myself to come back to washington. as hadley said and many people will say, pakistan is in many ways more critical but pakistan is much more critical because the point in the that makes life more difficult and pakistan, so i think in some ways it wasn't a great india and pakistan india so far is off track in terms of these issues. i think it hasn't worked. it's more of a regional picture. it remains very critical and important in pakistan and afghanistan. there i think at this time the united states at least brokers a solution of a long festering issue that is the recognition of the international border between pakistan and afghanistan. it is very difficult to make the point when the u.s. withdraws that by declining they should say on this side of what? if they do not recognize the existing border as the international border which everybody else does, then it makes the case harder. nobody assumes that it's going to extend to the river just as nobody should assume that their brand of pakistan should extend into afghani
two years in the conversations bill would come out of the government to bring myself to come back to washington. as hadley said and many people will say, pakistan is in many ways more critical but pakistan is much more critical because the point in the that makes life more difficult and pakistan, so i think in some ways it wasn't a great india and pakistan india so far is off track in terms of these issues. i think it hasn't worked. it's more of a regional picture. it remains very critical and...
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that argument remained unsettled in washington today. that is to my tank, the doubt that you're picking upon in your question. >> i will make several comments, and on a different question. on working backwards to my you know, i looked at it this way. first, the fact is, when you look at globally castries the united states has said the capability and even in this time , but secondly, it is the united states that has taken responsibility and stepped forward. i cannot point to of another country that has been willing to take that responsibility. having said that, david refers to how we are modifying some of our approaches in dealing with that responsibility in a more cost-effective ways, but also having said that, i would argue that i think there is going to be a big debate over this issue because there are many different ways of advancing the strategic interests. let me, with that, to the first question, the diplomacy development and defense, i think many of you may know and certainly our members of congress here would get the question fro
that argument remained unsettled in washington today. that is to my tank, the doubt that you're picking upon in your question. >> i will make several comments, and on a different question. on working backwards to my you know, i looked at it this way. first, the fact is, when you look at globally castries the united states has said the capability and even in this time , but secondly, it is the united states that has taken responsibility and stepped forward. i cannot point to of another...
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a novel concept here in washington. that is a major reason why we reject short-sided politics of spending promises that result in long term cost to taxpayers. of course, our state increased state debt approximately a billion dollars a year for 20 years, but since i took office, first year, we paid down $500 million in state debt, and this year, about a $1.5 billion. increasing a billion dollars every year, to balance the budget, they borrowed more money. remember the stimulus that begun projects like high speed rail. in states without the financial support to continue them. you know, the federal government offered us $2.6 billion and didn't understand why i didn't want to bill the high speed rail project from orlando to tampa, 84 miles. the last pitch was it's a good tourist attraction. [laughter] people didn't understand why we turned it down, but here was the deal, and i think you still might be able to get it. you get $2.6 billion a year, okay? now, if you look -- you got to build the track and the train, historicall
a novel concept here in washington. that is a major reason why we reject short-sided politics of spending promises that result in long term cost to taxpayers. of course, our state increased state debt approximately a billion dollars a year for 20 years, but since i took office, first year, we paid down $500 million in state debt, and this year, about a $1.5 billion. increasing a billion dollars every year, to balance the budget, they borrowed more money. remember the stimulus that begun...
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for the time being still washington is putting a lot of. foot to reassure china that is not trying to do religious growth but to some degree control it to make it manageable yes the united states is reassuring china but if there is a domestic opposition in china similar to what happened in iran in two thousand and nine or what happened in syria or what happened in china in one nine hundred eighty nine with tiananmen you'll see it the whole western media and the u.s. government turned suddenly sharply to support that opposition against the chinese communist party that's an underlying part of the politics and i think the chinese government knows that. three international space station crew members have successfully returned to earth after four months in space r.t. shaun thomas followed the touchdown for us. can say that soyuz t.m.a. zero five am has landed safely and it has brought with it the s.s. expedition thirty three crew with them sunny williams from the usa actually push it up from japan and europe go from russia now you know making it
for the time being still washington is putting a lot of. foot to reassure china that is not trying to do religious growth but to some degree control it to make it manageable yes the united states is reassuring china but if there is a domestic opposition in china similar to what happened in iran in two thousand and nine or what happened in syria or what happened in china in one nine hundred eighty nine with tiananmen you'll see it the whole western media and the u.s. government turned suddenly...
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the market right now is hinging on every speck of news that comes out of washington. every speck of news. it doesn't seem like anything else matters. so, between the holiday with lack of traders, lack of staff, low-volume, and then at any moment news possibly coming out, i think we are in for a bit of a whipsaw week. > > thank you scott. > > any time angie. as retailers prepare for the end-of-week shopping craze, workers are preparing to strike. wal-mart employees plan to strike this week ahead of black friday in protest of low wages and higher healthcare premiums. walkouts began at a few stores last week, and are planned at a thousand wal-mart stores this week. in an emailed statement, wal-mart called the coming strikes "just another exaggerated publicity campaign aimed at generating headlines to mislead." at target, 200,000 employees have signed an online petition in protest of the retailer opening at 9pm on thanskgiving. cyber monday is a week away, but according to some retail analysts, it's already here as consumers gobble up deals. banana republic, land's end an
the market right now is hinging on every speck of news that comes out of washington. every speck of news. it doesn't seem like anything else matters. so, between the holiday with lack of traders, lack of staff, low-volume, and then at any moment news possibly coming out, i think we are in for a bit of a whipsaw week. > > thank you scott. > > any time angie. as retailers prepare for the end-of-week shopping craze, workers are preparing to strike. wal-mart employees plan to strike...
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this sex scandal is all anybody in washington can talk about. i wonder why the country is in financial ruin? ( cheers and applause ) well, folks, i may be a news junky, but i also got to have my stories. and this is both. it's like a steamy episode of "general's hospital." ( laughter ) ( applause ) and these days-- these days, information, i spend my afternoons you know plopped on the couch in the housecoat, watching cnn with a virginia slim in bon hand and a box of after 8s in the other. i don't care if the news goes straight to my himself. it is me time. this story has got everything-- a decorated war hero has an affair with his own sexy biographer, who senses the spy master is stepping out on her with a second girlfriend, so she sends an e-mail from a secret account saying step off or i will cut, biatch. and the second hottie freaks out and contacts her friends, f.b.i. agent, who launches an investigation, but gets pulled off the case because he sexed her a shirtless photo. the spy mastery protege, also a general, has sent thousands of e-mail
this sex scandal is all anybody in washington can talk about. i wonder why the country is in financial ruin? ( cheers and applause ) well, folks, i may be a news junky, but i also got to have my stories. and this is both. it's like a steamy episode of "general's hospital." ( laughter ) ( applause ) and these days-- these days, information, i spend my afternoons you know plopped on the couch in the housecoat, watching cnn with a virginia slim in bon hand and a box of after 8s in the...
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it was a memory that was formed at the famous nixon policy conference held in washington in march of 1993, and this was the conference around which nixon's very public criticism of president bush's handling of the russian transition from communism to democracy had swirled. nixon had written a very scathing memorandum criticizing the administration's handling of that transition, and he criticized it as "pathetically inadequate"; that he thought the administration was not supporting boris yeltsin enough financially. and he had written this memorandum, and it had leaked and it exploded on the front page of the new york times. so president bush was going to be forced to answer nixon's criticism at nixon's conference so nixon was caught in the maelstrom of all these highly dramatic events, and i accompanied him to washington for that conference. and nixon hosted a different group of people at his head table for each panel discussion, and i was asked to join his head table during zbigniew brzezinksi's panel discussion. and i sat to the right of president nixon, and to the right of me was j
it was a memory that was formed at the famous nixon policy conference held in washington in march of 1993, and this was the conference around which nixon's very public criticism of president bush's handling of the russian transition from communism to democracy had swirled. nixon had written a very scathing memorandum criticizing the administration's handling of that transition, and he criticized it as "pathetically inadequate"; that he thought the administration was not supporting...
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what is your message to washington? >> caller: i really think that comprised in the area and in positive way. it's so wonderful in my mind that president obama not elected and i believe that people can now start to work together as not so much just politicians but as people that are going help solve problems and moving forward in a positive way. so many of the comments i heard on c-span over the last -- since the election happened. so many negative comments i heard. i heard a lot of positive ones. but so many negative ones i think had just simply have no validity and kind of portray them as somebody who is not doing well by people and the thing that really not been mentioned on c-span or other channels very often very infrequently is congress, the republicans -- [inaudible] throughout the term and so called democrat majority people fail to mention is 12 democrats, which in my view have very conservative republicans in disguise blocked everything. they never did have. >> ron. let's look forward. we want the to work. what
what is your message to washington? >> caller: i really think that comprised in the area and in positive way. it's so wonderful in my mind that president obama not elected and i believe that people can now start to work together as not so much just politicians but as people that are going help solve problems and moving forward in a positive way. so many of the comments i heard on c-span over the last -- since the election happened. so many negative comments i heard. i heard a lot of...
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and people around washington who out of the pentagon for number of years and then had occasion to go back remarkable have difficult it has become to say no, and just how much this of float that you see there from 99 to 2010 had really changed the culture. internally. i think much of what winslow just said reflects the underlying reality. now second, there has, in fact, been a significant shift in foreign policy appetite and national security appetite, both on the part of the two parties, and on the part of the american public. and what do we mean when i say that? there is no appetite for another land war in asia, and there's no appetite for a continuing to lead were in asia that we've still got in afghanistan. and we just saw in the concluded presidential campaign that the candidate who had a wing of his party clergy pledging them to take the view that we should be in afghanistan longer, that we should do more in syria, that we should do something militarily and iran was continually pushed away from that by the more political politically minded wing of his party that was reading an i
and people around washington who out of the pentagon for number of years and then had occasion to go back remarkable have difficult it has become to say no, and just how much this of float that you see there from 99 to 2010 had really changed the culture. internally. i think much of what winslow just said reflects the underlying reality. now second, there has, in fact, been a significant shift in foreign policy appetite and national security appetite, both on the part of the two parties, and on...
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it's only in official washington that this hasn't been, you know, been accepted. and by the way, i hate to pick the liberals, cut the liberals down one more time, but i have never in my life heard legalization of drugs talked about in a presidential debate until the first republican primary debate of either end of last year or this year when both gary johnson and ron paul brought it up, and they actually got big rounds of applause. they did not get booed off the stage. they got laughed at by mitt romney and all the rest of them, but, you know, you take out the little what we call in marxist theory the superstructure of, you know, the party apparatus, and everybody takes it seriously. or maybe these guys will contradict -- >> do you want me to go, or do you want to go? >> yeah, i mean, mine should be pretty quick. i prefer taxes on consumption as opposed to on investment or on anything that creates additional income. so, and i'm not a fan of the drug war, so i wouldn't really object to it. i'd be skeptical of marijuana legalization as a grand deficit reduction stra
it's only in official washington that this hasn't been, you know, been accepted. and by the way, i hate to pick the liberals, cut the liberals down one more time, but i have never in my life heard legalization of drugs talked about in a presidential debate until the first republican primary debate of either end of last year or this year when both gary johnson and ron paul brought it up, and they actually got big rounds of applause. they did not get booed off the stage. they got laughed at by...
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you heard it this morning on c-span "washington journal." businesses are going to be shutting down, losing. people are going to be hurting because there's going to be so many less jobs, and her agenda is so -- nothing to do with job. she's not good for the united states. thank you very much. >> host: that's michigan on the republican's line. let's hear from our independent line. austin, texas. good morning, go ahead. >> caller: good morning, how are you? i am very happy that nancy pelosi has decided to run again for minority leader. and i'd like to comment on your previous caller before me. she had made a statement that nancy pelosi does not do what she always says, which i find very incorrect. nancy has always stood or the minority of the american population, the poor, especially if you remember her efforts in trying to pass the schip in the previous election. and she did so, and she stood her ground, and right now we see the same woman speaking very well. she's not stumbling into words like your previous caller suggested. she is strong and
you heard it this morning on c-span "washington journal." businesses are going to be shutting down, losing. people are going to be hurting because there's going to be so many less jobs, and her agenda is so -- nothing to do with job. she's not good for the united states. thank you very much. >> host: that's michigan on the republican's line. let's hear from our independent line. austin, texas. good morning, go ahead. >> caller: good morning, how are you? i am very happy...
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our partners at abc news project alabama won in 25 states and washington, d.c. that includes the swing states of virginia, wisconsin and colorado. his victory in the battleground of ohio pushed him past 270, the number of electoral votes needed to win the election. the latest projections say he secured 303 electoral votes. mitt romney took 206. florida is the only state yet to report. officials there are still counting ballots. reuters says the popular vote was 50% to 49% in obama's favor. obama gave his victory speech in the early hours of wednesday in chicago, illinois. he laid out a vision for his second term. >> the belief that while each of us will pursue our own individual dreams, we are an american family and we rise our fall together as one nation and as one people. and in the coming weeks and months, i am looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together, reducing our deficit, reforming our tax code, fixing our immigration system, freeing ourselves from foreign oil. we've got more
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must go once is at least something in writing well do you think that there is something that prevents washington profer it from putting something obligations in writing at least what what what is it the congress the public opinion the allies what. just statements even in rating are not sufficient we soar and we were satisfied and we welcomed when the nato summit in chicago may last produced a statement along the lines in along the lines which i described the problem here is that these statement was not ease not a legally binding one we need an agreement and here is the difficulty because both as you say the congress. namely the senate when it adopted ratification resolution on the new start the u.s. . allies probably not all of them but most of them and the administration itself made it extremely difficult to move on this particular issue and you know we are somewhat stuck so the movement in chicago was welcomed by russian side but it was not sufficient well let's get back to reset to this phrase that four years ago we all remember the state sector of moscow that big red button it well it played
must go once is at least something in writing well do you think that there is something that prevents washington profer it from putting something obligations in writing at least what what what is it the congress the public opinion the allies what. just statements even in rating are not sufficient we soar and we were satisfied and we welcomed when the nato summit in chicago may last produced a statement along the lines in along the lines which i described the problem here is that these statement...